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小满 | Grain Buds
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The ancient Chinese valued the beauty of symmetry. Among the twenty-four solar terms, there is "Minor Heat" versus "Major Heat", "Minor Snow" versus "Major Snow", and "Minor Cold" versus "Greater Cold". However, there is one exception - Grain Buds (Xiaoman, literally meaning "little full").
In the northern regions of China, it denotes the stage when the grains of wheat, along with other crops harvested in the summer, are beginning to plump up but are not yet ripe. In the southern regions, it refers to rising water levels. As rainfall intensifies and the water levels of rivers and streams rise, it seems that rivers are becoming a little full.
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